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Steve Pool is promising eighty degrees by Saturday, but we know better than to hang our hopes on the emptiness that is a Seattle weather person’s five-day forecast. Just go outside, shit is cold. If summer is going to spring back into form like a sunny Lazarus, we won’t complain--but right now it’s taking more faith than us heathens can afford. Coming off maybe the wettest Bumbershoot in memory, this feels like an appropriate time to reflect on the summer in the past tense.

A week ago, news of Fisher Plaza’s fire-induced power outage came as a surprise to gullible emergency management types who were guaranteed the media "fortress" could withstand even the most modern of technological curveballs. But in light of the present truck stop generator makeover that's sprung up on John Street, we're not so sure.

Jeff Renner, stop talking.

• Those fellows from the Deadliest Catch are quite the local celebrities. (Take that, Steve Pool!) Folks lined up to meet Captain Phil from Deadliest Catch in West Seattle on Sunday.
• The Phinney Neighborhood Association has moved up from renters to property owners...tentatively. After 27 years of renting the old John B. Allen Elementary School on Phinney Avenue, they've reached an agreement with the Seattle Public School District to buy the building.
• Capitol Hill Seattle is looking for some new mnemonics for Seattle streets. Since "Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest" is only memorable when I don't need to remember it...we'll see how useful the new mnemonics are, but is a fun Monday morning distraction.

• You know it's Seafair when the Seattle Police Department issues a "Boating Under the Influence Advisory." That's right folks, if you're out on the water this weekend, beware: everyone else on the lake is going to be drunk, whatever the boat cops say. As long-suffering Seattle residents who can afford boats, that is their God-given right during Seafair. It's the viking heritage.
• Crosscut Seattle confirmed a long held theory of ours: that the local news and radio broadcasters have remained virtually unchanged for our whole life. And we were right! Jean Enersen celebrates 40 years with KING5 today, and yesterday KIRO Radio personality Dave Ross celebrated 30 years on the air. Sure, the city has quadrupled in size, but you still got the same old Jean and Dave (and Steve Pool...and Kathy Goertzen...and Dan Lewis) to tune in to.
• Central District News warns local dog owners who might take their pups for a dip at Madrona Beach or a romp in the park. Two dogs convulsing from suspected slug poison have been taken to emergency vets, but have thus survived.

The Makah need to hunt the gray whale like Steve Pool needs to color his fro. It isn’t necessary to the survival of either, but it makes things seem more colorful.

The ability to endure month after month of days like today is an unappreciated phenomenon unique to this corner of America.

Listening to Paul Tosch, the KOMO copter guy, who reports that I-5 between Marysville and Thurston County is mostly dry, and the bridges are free of ice. But the side streets and overpasses and underpasses are still icy, so be careful there.

Where we are, the promised wind storm is underway, and radar shows us that we're about to get rained on with extreme prejudice.

At a reader's request, we've set up a special, and entirely fictional, interview with longtime KOMO weatherman Steve Pool.

The first weekend of summer is here and Steve Pool told us last night that we're actually going to have some weather that befits the season. We got us a second opinion today that verifies it! It's pretty nice outside right now at 74°, but tomorrow the high is listed at an incredible 82° and even gets a few degrees warmer for Sunday (and Monday also at 85° if you want to stretch the weekend). Woo hoo! It's not only hot and summer time, it's also Pride Weekend.

Our modern day prophet had a convo with God the other day and God told him the Pacific NW is screwed. How do prophets get in touch with deities in 2006, anyway? That burning bush thing is so B.C., but we're not sure if He's ready for instant messaging yet. Maybe Pat Robertson recieved a burning text message from God on his phone?

The next time you put on makeup in the back of a cab, or make out back there, or light up a bowl, or break down crying, or make funny faces behind the drivers back, or knife him remember you're being recorded by the taxi cam. Over the last few months all 643 of Seattle's taxis have been outfitted with security cameras that snap a picture every few seconds. The article in the P-I doesn't mention what happens to the pictures once they're taken, but we assume that they're sent via wireless to a dispatcher or something? Is it someone's job now to watch 643 video monitors? Or are they just stored in the car until a cab driver turns up robbed?

We feel llike there's been just about enough comment in town on snow, the chance of snow, the lack of snow, snow where you came from, snow removal, snow traffic, chains, tires, boards, forecasts, mobiles, makers, shovels, problems, etc. And we haven't seen any snow in Seattle today. Maybe some rain with tracer fire. Howerver, if you are all wrapped up in precipitation than you should take note of a few things:

You most certainly have noticed the current state of relentless sunshine in Seattle; did you know that historically August 1st and 4th are tied with July 22nd and 30th as the driest days of the year?

No, not the Lorene Cary memoir, which Seattlest found to be a moving and well-written book. We're talking about the black ice that our local traffic reporters have us convinced is a sinister and rare weather condition. When their voices go up in pitch with "reports of black ice on the roadways" we quiver at the vision of our number 15 bus skidding down Mercer Street, helpless at the mercy of this dark, invisible force.